A hit squad to kill a former intelligence officer. The leaders of 2 west african nations ivory coast and guinea are expected to run for controversial 3rd terms in october. And new yorks attorney general sues the National Rifle association in a bid to dissolve the gun lobbying group. The search for bodies continues in the aftermath of lebanons deadly port explosion and so does the search for answers 16 port officials have now been detained but many arent blaming the people running the port instead they say the people running the country are responsible protests are being held in central beirut calling for a complete overhaul of the political elite theyve been backed by french president emanuel mccrum hes been touring neighborhoods devastated by the chemical explosion the death toll from tuesdays blast. It is now at 149. 00 and its expected to go up by nick smith as the latest from beirut. On the streets of beirut on thursday frances president Emmanuel Mccomas essentially moment by peopl
The killing of george. China rejects criticism over its handling of coronavirus and says its working to produce a vaccine for the world not just for its own benefit. Brazils government stops its running total of coronavirus deaths a move critics say is an attempt to hide the real. Live easy u. N. Recognized government is pressing on with an offensive to reclaim territory from war highly for half the hour this forces entering the stronghold city of sirte the governments rejected a cease fire plan put forth by half the and his egyptian allies almost until well have reports from trippy. Proposing a peace deal in cairo egypts president abdel fatah has sisi with libyas warlord honey for have to. Whose full team month offensive to capture the libyan capital collapsing this week announcing it is time for a ceasefire and old foreign fighters to leave come out ahead if and with our daughter. The Initiative Aims to guarantee a ferry presentation of libyas 3 provinces and a president ial council
China trade deal jobless claims fall. And real estate and staples are leading the charge joining us for the hour is stephanie link were both feeling the holiday red but we got a green market. Like a christmas theme were now starting to see internalsin the market thats confirming the stabilization look at the 210 spread, the yield curve is steepening. Nats a good sign asia stocks, they are breaking out. You look at oil up 10 in the past month all of these things are confirming were seeing stabilization and that sets us up for 2020 seeing better growth my biggest question mark does this translate into better earnings i think we will see better earnings which maybe not right away you have pmis globally that are stabilizing. I feel good going into 2020. It has to be an Earnings Growth year all three averages are up half a percent first lets focus on the big stories were watching Kayla Tausche has the latest on china trade and usmca. Then the senate spendling bill vote and Bertha Coombs has
Company. In the Obama Administration reveals they coached her on what to say for hunter biden and bres mom. Democrats using focus groups and democrat states to include their messaging. That is what you hear bribery. Lets debate, democrats crying wolf for three years. Even some in the liberal media worried that democrats are flailing, the president and the attorney general meeting yesterday with the animate release of the Justice Department and Inspector General report on the Obama Administration for the trump campaign. How that report will collide with impeachment. Republican senators say their game plan will be as republican senator Chuck Grassley used the word cover up and asking why the fbi officials as they tried to stonewall the ig knowing this report could hurt them. The stock market hitting historic highs, the economy going ahead and more people working than ever. This as Rashida Tlaib has always wanted to impeach trump attacking economic policies now, shes accused by the house
A phone call with the ukrainian leader u. S. President donald trump thursday called on china to get involved what. Is just about as bad as what happened with. You phrase the unconventional request to beijing comes as trump faces questions over his administrations request to foreign governments to help investigate former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden his potential democratic rival in next years president ial contest. Trump was chinese authorities and other countries to investigate bidens son hunter and his business dealings overseas members of the u. S. Congress are investigating allegations trump abused his president ial powers in a july phone call with ukrainian president vladimir selenski we need real support in a trunk calls for an investigation into the bidens which is now the foundation of an impeachment inquiry led by democratic lawmakers on capitol hill 3 committees in the house of representatives on thursday question former u. S. Special envoy kurt volker about his orders from